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Handout1
How was your vacation-

Unit 1
Learning objectives
Communicative goals
 Greet someone arriving from a trip.
 Ask about someone’s vacation
 Discuss vacation preferences
 Describe good and bad vacation experiences

Vocabulary
 Adjectives to describe trips
 Intensifiers
 Decline and accept help
 Good and bad vacation experiences

Listening skills/ pronunciation

 Listen for main ideas

 Listen for details
 Infer meaning
 Pronunciation

 The simple past tense ending.

 Regular verbs

1. Activity one

1. Listen to people talking about good and bad vacation.

A: Watch the Video: “How was your vacation? Scene 1: Video 26” While
watching, listen and repeat the conversation. You have to listen to it at least
three times. Write down the script of the video and then, you can look up
unknown words in your dictionary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSBAlaXXlk&list=PLi5aMhs0-
QFhQYVpQVo3Yn8mtPat6Tk2a&index=19

Dictionaries on line:
1- Word reference: English-Spanish.
http://www.wordreference.com/

2- Howjsay: On line talking pronunciation dictionary

https://howjsay.com/

B: Focus on language: Write down the video clip script

C: Focus on language: Look at the scrip you have written down from the
video. With partners, find and write down expression following these criteria:

1. Three expressions that mean “things were not O.K.”.

2. An expression that means “a place is very near to other place”.

3. An expression that means “the weather was not good”

4. Eight words which meanings were intensified.

5. Three expressions that mean “the fly was not O.K.”

6. An expression that means “the sun never rose(rise) in a day”.

7. A word that means “to live in a place for a while”.

8. An expression that means “the room was nice”.

9. An expression that means a person is sure about something he/she says.

10. An expression that means a vacation was great.

11. Six negative adjectives to describe bad situations on vacation.

D: Role play: With partners from your study group, via skype, practice the
conversation model from the video. Then, using this model, with your partners
create a similar situation talking about a tourist place in Colombia. You have to
shoot a video clip as learning evidence and upload it.

E: Watch the Video: “How was your vacation? Scene 2: Video 27” While
watching, listen and repeat the conversation. You have to listen to it at least
three times. You can pause the video to write down the script and then, you can
look up unknown words in your dictionary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY62SeAoOqc&list=PLi5aMhs0-
QFhQYVpQVo3Yn8mtPat6Tk2a&index=20

F: Focus on language: Look at the scrip you have written down from the video.
With partners, find and write down expression following these criteria:

1- An expression that mean I glad you’re home again.

2- Three bad events happened on vacation.

3- A sea food

4- A sudden start of illness.

5- A journey on a ship for pleasure.

6- Three way to negatively intensify the meaning of vacation.

7- One way to positively intensify the meaning of vacation.

8- One way to describe a very interesting and full of action vacation.

9- One way to say “Bob is not in the mood for exciting vacation”,
10- Bob doesn’t like exciting vacation

GOOD LUCK
AND GOD BLESS YOU